Automobile-curtain



J. J. MOORE. AUTOMOBILE CURTAIN.-

APPLICATION. FILED MAR.I6,19!B.

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JESSE JOEL MOORE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

AUTOMOBILE-CURTAIN,

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 8, 1820.

Application filed. March 16, 1918. Serial No. 222,945

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Jnssn JonL Moonn, citizen of the United States of America, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Automobile-Curtains; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to vehicle curtains and more particularly to attachments for automobiles whereby the opening between the canopy top and the top of the body above the door thereof can be efficiently closed.

I It is one of the objects of the present invention to provide an efficient, detachable, readily adjustable, practical, and inexpensive door curtain for vehicles of the automobile type.

It is another and important object of the invention to provide especially for convenient access to and egress from the vehicle by providing for the peculiar supporting of the detachable curtain section utilized to cover the opening between the canopy top and the top edge of the body structure and door. To that end, a feature of the present invention resides in the provision of means for carrying or supporting one edge of a cover or door forming section in such a manner that when the door is opened the curtain section is carried thereby so as to clear the passageway and permit free ingress and egress to the vehicle tonneau and at the same time provide, when the door is closed, for the efiicient covering of the opening between the top of the vehicle and above the door.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction, the combination and details and arrangement of the parts as more fully hereinafter de scribed with relation to one embodiment of the invention shown in the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a side eleva tion of the portion of an automobile, showing the door closed and illustrating the curtain support attached thereto in different positions; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the detached curtain support; and Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the detached adjustable stop.

Figs. 4- and 5 are details of a fastening device for the support.

In the drawings there is illustrated a portion of a vehicle by B having at its front end the dash D from which may project upwardly the wind shield or other front structure S, the body being provided with suitable doors one of which is indicated at G and above the top edge of the body is shown a cover or top T which may be sup ported in any suitable manner as by the upright U. I

In many structures of vehicles of the automobile type the door C swings in the doorway formed in the body B and the adjacent upright members as U and S, for instance are disalined from the vertical edges of the door. Under certain conditions it is desirable to cover that portion of the interior of the vehicle which is ordinarily left open and especially in the type of vehicles having open bodies. For the purpose of efliciently closing the area of the side of the vehicle above the doors C and other portions it is common to utilize pieces of curtain structure of suitable size which may be conveniently buttoned or otherwise attached to the top or cover, to the top edge of the body and to adjacent vertical uprights andin my present invention I provide for the convenient attachment of those portions of the side curtains forming continuations of the door or doors so that when the door is opened and closed the relative curtain thereof will be automatically carried out of the way to provide egress or ac cess to the vehicle interior without necessitating the driver or other person having to manipulate any of the fastenings of the curtain.

To achieve this desideratum, I provide a suitably shaped curtain support or carrier 2 attached to the door and one end of which is adapted for pivotal relation thereon as at 3, in any suitable manner, the support being shown in the present instance as comprising a substantially L-shaped arm having a long upright member and a short right-angular member which latter is shown in Fig. 2 as comprising two relatively adjustable and overlapping sections 2 and 2 each of which are perforated as at 5 and adapted to be bolted together in adjusted longitudinal relation so as to provide for the bringing of the upright portion of the arm 2 in juxtaposition to an adjacent upright as U irrespective of the length of the horizontal corher of the body formed between the upright and the swinging vertical edge of the door. In practice a curtain section E is adapted to be attached along a vertical upright portion as S attached to the tonneauand its opposite edge is adapted'to be connected to the upright member of the arm 2 and its lower horizontal edge may be attached to the top edge ofthe door, the top edge of the curtain being adapted to swing or pass in below the adjacent edge of the top or cover T when the door is swung to the closed position, this being made possible by the operation of the curtain carrier 2,. the upper end ofwhichis designed to swing; in close juxtaposition to the edgeof the top.

In, operation, when the curtain section E has been attached with its carrier 2 to the door andito the upright. S, then as the door is swung open the carrier or arm 2 will swing from the full line closing position in Fig. l to the dotted line open position, the swinging or tilting actionof the carrier 2 relaxing anddoubling the upper edge of the curtain so as to .permit, therefore, the ready swinging of the door C. outwardly on its hinges without interference by the curtain. This slackening of the curtain section E provides for the difference in the arcs of motions of the, swinging edge of the door and the 7 top edge ofthe curtain. For the purpose of limiting the downward tilting movement of.

the carrier arm 2, which swings in a plane parallel to the body of the door and-substantially over its top edge there may be bolted on to the downwardly curved end 2 of the section 2" a right angular stop piece 6 the horizontal; army of which is adapted to engage withthe top edge of the door after a predetermined tilting movement of the carrier. The vertical element 6 of the stop member may be slotted as at. 6 to receive bolts passing through the end 2,, the slot ens abling the relative adjustment to the desired position ofthe stopr There is shown in Figs. 4 and 5 a detail on an enlargedscale of a suitable means for securing the carrier to the automobile door C. In this form the lower L-shaped arm is indicated at 20, the lower end of which is providedwith an oblong slot 21 adapted to pass over the elongated head 23 or a stud bolt or pivot 22, shown as threaded and passed through the door C, the screw having an outer nut 25 forming a washer between which andthe head 23 the end of the arm 20 may swing. By this form or pivotal connection, it is a very easy matter to apply the arm 20 to the door simply by throwing the arm to an angle so that the slot will aline with the head 23- of the pivot bolt, after,

which the arm can then be turned to the full line position for normal use in Fig. 4 and swung to the dotted line position when it isv desiredto have exit from the car,

lVhat I claim is:

1. The combination, with avehicle having a doorway and its door, a canopy top, apliant curtain section attachable to the door and to an adjacent upright; and an arm having a variable length portion perpendicular.

to its length and pivotally connected to the door corner, said curtain attached to the arm so as to fold by a swinging movement of the arm over the top of and substantially in the plane of the door.

2. The combination with a vehicle having a doorway and its door, a canopy top, a curtain section attachable to the door and to an.

ber substantially at, right angles to the piv-,

otal radius of said bar and pins on the other said bar, said pins and slots forming an adj ustment means.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

' JESSE JOEL MOORE. 

